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cracker
noun- a poor, uneducated, racist white from the southern US US, 1966
- Tommy was another cracker bastard. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 26, 1945
- Just a flunkey, a northern redneck, a Yankee cracker! — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 200–01, 1947
- “I’m Ethel Waters,” I told him, “and I’m standing on my grounds. And you or no other cracker sonofabitch can tell me what to do.” — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 203, 1951
- Like I’d walk up to some big, fat-assed cracker policeman and hold my hands inside my sleeves and bow and ask him directions[.] — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 73, 1961
- The horror is the Georgia “cracker.” Depravity rigid. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 452, 1961
- I was working down the aisle and a big, beefy, red-faced cracker soldier got up in front of me[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 77, 1964
- No, the crackers down South is white people, real mean white people. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 44, 1965
- Everyone was supposed to be non-violent, but when these crackers started to beat women and children there was a hell of a rumble. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 134–35, 1967
- I think we ought to just challenge for the heck of it every two hours or so, just to let those crackers know that we are on our toes and they’d better not try anything. — Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power, p. 110, 1967
- [A] number-one-all-Amerikian cracker[.] — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 41, 1969
- They went out to the highway and caught a ride with a young cracker in a ‘55 Ford. — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 27, 1969
- I mean, jail up north is gotta be like summer camp compared to jail down in cracker country. — Raging Bull, 1980
- I was with the two producers once when they were talking about casting the role of “Slade,” the decadent, wealthy cracker[.] — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 8, 1986
- You got cracker farm-boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy–blond hair, blue eyes. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- anything excellent UK, 1914
From CRACK - We did some crackers. — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, p. 181, 1999
- I was at one [a party] the other year, fucking cracker it were[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 41, 2001
- an excellent performance in a game AUSTRALIA
- You will have played well when the pundits describe your perform-ance as a “cracker[.]” — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 20, 1986
- an attractive woman UK, 1914
- I saw a pretty girl coming along the street. “Ain’t she a cracker? Look at her, she’s like a film star.” — Joe Morgan, Eastenders Don’t Cry, p. 58, 1994
- the buttocks US
- And the loudest cusser is generally the first one knocked on his cracker and sent to the bench for repairs. — Fortnight, p. 11, 31 December 1948
- Now their fear of missing something has carried them almost, but not quite, to the point of hoping that Clay wins so that the beautiful sight they want most to see–that of Clay on his cracker–might be “saved” for their eyes at some later date. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 61, 23 March 1966
- a person who breaches a computer system’s security scheme US
Coined c. 1985 by hackers in defence against journalistic misuse of the word. - — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 110, 1991
- These crackers exploited a flaw in the VMS infrastructure which DEC Corporation had announced was remedied three months earlier. — The Knightmare, Secrets of a Super Hacker, p. 8, 1994
- a criminal who specialises in breaking into safes US
An abbreviation of “safe cracker”. - — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 33, 1982
- a safe CANADA
- Maybe he [the store manager] adds it up first in his office, takes it home, stashes it in the cracker, or maybe behind the corn flakes. — Hugh Garner, The Intruders, p. 107, 1976
- a pound (£1); a pound-note AUSTRALIA, 1934
In A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, G.A. Wilkes argues that there is no evidence that a “cracker” has ever been used to mean “a pound,” which is the sense that both Sidney J. Baker and the Oxford English Dictionary favour, but he (Wilkes) offers no alternative. Often used in phrases such as “not have a cracker.” - the least amount of money AUSTRALIA, 1934
- Three years before he hadn’t a cracker. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 64, 1954
- He didn’t have a cracker when he lived on the Terrace. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 52, 1969
- a firework AUSTRALIA, 1907
- Now and then fountains of red sparks shot up out of Lick Jimmy’s backyard, where he was letting off crackers in some solitary celebration[.] — Ruth Park, Poor Man’s Orange, p. 28, 1949
- a phonograph record US
- — Time Magazine, p. 92, 20 January 1947
- a brothel AUSTRALIA, 1955
- — G.A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978
- a tooth UK
Usually in the plural. - When I saw Davis the other day his crackers seemed to be in good shape... no sign even of tartar. — Graham Greene, The Human Factor, 1978
▶ go off like a cracker
to explode into a rage AUSTRALIA- But tell him I paid $100 for someone to clean the windows and he goes off like a cracker. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 134, 1995
▶ not worth a cracker
entirely worthless AUSTRALIA- “He’s got guts, anyway,” said Sayers. “I didn’t think he was worth a cracker.” — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 126, 1941
- Circumstantial evidence isn’t worth a cracker in court, on something like this. — Ricki Francis, Hotel Kings X, p. 83, 1973
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